Hey everyone, this is Stefan from projectlifemastery.com
and in this video I'm going to talk to you about how to avoid burnout.
You know, maybe you're facing burnout in your business, in your life, towards
achieving a goal,
everybody faces it at some point, where you're working away, you're taking
massive action, you're excited, you're passionate,
maybe you have all these massive energy but eventually you hit a plateau. That
plateau
basically is just like, "Oh my God, like I just don't want to do anything,"
or you're so exhausted at a certain point, maybe you lose your motivation,
your desire and it can be very challenging to go through that. I face that time
and time again in my business because if you're an overachiever like me you're
extreme, you take massive action. For me, I spend so much time on my business and my
goals, and everything like that and I actually really get a lot of fuel and
energy by taking action in my life and achieving my goals. But eventually I
understand that if I don't take calculated breaks or rests, then I'm going to get burned
out and it happens to everybody out there. I've got a few tips for you,
guys, things that have helped me.
Number one, making sure that you're proactive and you're preventing the
burnout from even happening. I find this to be very important because a lot
of people, they don't plan breaks or rest time in their life or in their business or
towards their goals. If you don't plan for it it's just inevitable it's
going to happen. You don't want burnout happening when you're in the middle of a
big project or there's something very important.
Again, you want to make sure that you're smarter than that, you're being proactive.
You're anticipating the potential burnout that can occur and you're planning
and preparing for it.
Now I'm often reminded of just, like fitness and gaining muscle and working
out. One challenge that a lot of body builders or fitness people face is
you're working out, you're following a certain workout routine, and if you follow that
same routine or the same meal plan
week after week, month after month, eventually what happens is you hit a
plateau. That plateau basically, your body stops growing, you
stop getting the results, you stop losing fat and it's actually ...
You can try to push through it but it's
just not going to work because you hit the plateau. What you actually have to do
is you got to take a step back, and that step back
that you might take, it might seem like you're making some less progress, but you're
actually taking a step back so that you can take 5 or 10 steps forward.
You're going to have to take a step back at some point, but again, if you are a
smart person that anticipates you can see the plateau, the burnout that's going
to happen and you can plan and prepare for it. If you're a fitness
body builder person you might take a week off from the gym,
give your body rest. Because then when you go back at it you're going to shock up the
body again and it's going to start to grow or you're going to switch up your
routine a little bit. There's certain things that you can do.
Number one, what I found to be important, is making sure that I have a
rest day at least one day out of the week. It might be different for you,
it's different for everybody, but for me one day out of the week.
I need a day just to take a break from everything, take a break from my
business, from some of my goals and use that as an opportunity to recharge.
If I'm working out ... As much as I love to workout everyday,
I recognize that I still need a day off to give my body a rest to prevent that
burnout. Because if I just workout everyday without factoring in that one
day rest, then I'm going to hit that plateau faster and I'm going to experience
burnout.
One day a week I need a rest day.
Usually during that rest day I spend it just doing nothing or doing
things that can help recharge me in some way.
For example, for me it might be doing a ritual, a morning ritual,
it might be a meditation. It might just be spend time with my girlfriend or friends or
family or doing something fun or going to the beach, just laying down or whatever, or
maybe it's just reading or whatever. Just doing something to relax, something that
doesn't require a lot of thinking, because the thinking, I think there's
mental burnout as well as physical burnout. Mental burnout is when your brain is just
constantly thinking, overloaded with so many things that you just burnout from
that. Having a day where I don't have to think about much, I don't have to use
lot of creativity and a lot of brain power,
I found that to be amazingly useful. Maybe it's getting a massage, and I
think the body and mind are connected, so
resting the body, getting massage, doing certain healing things to your body will
also help your mind and vice versa.
Things you do for your mind are also going to help your body. It might even just be
doing a cleanse. Sometimes for a day I might just do a cleanse and only
have juice or raw food or whatever, and that's just another way to cleanse
my body, relax and detox.
Having that day out of the week and another part of that too, I like to spend
time alone. I'm more of a natural introvert by nature. I am extroverted, I am
outgoing as well, but my nature is more introverted.
I also need a day, I find, part of that day is just doing things by myself. I
find for me just,
that's the way that I recharge, is just being alone, being with my thoughts,
being in nature, going for walks, etc. That really recharges me and helps
prevent and avoid that burnout as well.
Another thing when it comes to rest is, I found that taking a break every three
months. That break is usually more extended break from my business, that
might be, for example going away for a week on a trip somewhere and just doing
nothing, having fun.
It might be just disassociating from my business, like
for example I've got a trip coming up at The Grand Canyon, where I'm hiking and
doing whitewater rafting for five days.
No technology, no phones, no wifi or anything like that.
During those five days I'm just disconnecting from my business and
stuff, and what I find is when I take a more extended break, it gets me more energy,
excitement, passion to work on my business. Oftentimes, by taking those
breaks
I come up with different ideas and thoughts that can actually help my
business grow.
It's interesting when you get outside of your business, it's like you get
altitude and you're looking at things from a different perspective.
There's a lot of incredible benefits from doing it that way as well.
I think another thing that's worth considering, I'll give you one more tip, is
making sure that what you're doing in your business, you love, you enjoy.
This has been another important factor to avoid burnout, because you shouldn't be
getting burnout too often, your business really should give you fuel. It
should excite you. You should be passionate
about what you're doing in your business or towards your goal. I find for me,
I've been able to be in a position now in my business where I spend less time
doing the things that used to drain me. For example like, I remember doing
customer support,
I just can't stand customer support. I love my customers, don't get me wrong, but
there's a lot ... When you deal with customers there's a lot of frustrating
things you've got to deal with, because a lot of customers are amazing, but you
always have certain customers that are bad apples, that can be frustrating and
you have to put out fires and deal with certain issues. For me, I remember
when I used to do customer support, my business, it just drained me. I just
would dread it and I would try to escape and avoid things for my
business as a result of that. When I got a customer support team to
handle that,
that freed up a lot of energy for me and I prevented a lot of burnout from that.
Being in a position where you can do what you love each day,
that's the ultimate gift because now your work doesn't feel like work. It
doesn't feel like a job, but it's now your mission, your purpose in your life,
your passion. That's a position that I feel blessed to be in, because for
me, I love doing what I do so much that it doesn't matter where I am in the
world. I just love to do it.
I love interacting and engaging with fans and followers and creating
content, and doing a lot of the things that I do. I think when you're in that
position, when you love it so much,
again, that burnout is not going to happen. A lot of people that have a job
and unfortunately they hate their job, if you hate your job you're looking forward to
five o'clock when you can checkout.
You're looking forward to the weekend. The fact that there's TGIF,
"Thank God, it's Friday," is crazy because people, they dread five days of the week,
they're only looking forward to two days out of the week. That's just not an
intelligent way to live your life, to spend that much of your life doing
something that you hate, that you dislike.
I couldn't imagine that. I've never ... Before I had a job and I was, I faced that in my life,
but I'm so grateful that I took the actions necessary to get out of that
because when you're doing something you hate all the time it's draining your
energy. When it's draining your energy you're going to
face burnout, you're going to want to recover, you're going to want to avoid it.
When you're doing what you love you want to do it more often.
It's almost like you love ...
you meet someone new and you're so passionate about that person, you want to
spend all your time with that person. That's kind of what it's like falling
in love with your business. Regardless how much you love your business you
still will face burnout, and again, you just got to anticipate it and
calculate it and decide, "You know what, I need to force myself a day out of the
week, every three months
I'm going to take a week off, I'm going to take whatever," whatever is realistic for you,
but take time off and do things that are totally unrelated to your business.
Again, that's what's really helped me in avoiding the burnout and hopefully
some of these tips can help you as well.
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